Conversations - Mary-Joy Johnson Integrative Psychotherapist

About this episode

The episode features a conversation with Mary-Joy Johnson about supporting adoptive parents and the impact of trauma.

Hello and welcome to conversations from the AandF podcast. In this episode I speak to a former guest Mary-Joy Johnson founder of Wildways therapy and an integrative psychotherapist whose work focuses on supporting adoptive parents. This is a really helpful conversation considering the impact of trauma on parents and considers where that comes from as well as changing the narrative of self care to one of community care. I hope you find it useful and if you want to know more of the work she does you can access Mary-Joy’s website here As always if you’ve experience of adoption, fostering or special guardianship from any perspective personal or professional and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook page, BlueSky or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com Listen/subscribe on iTunes here Spotify here

People in this episode

Hosts: Al Coates, Scott Casson-Rennie

Guest: Mary-Joy Johnson

Topics covered

• adoption
• fostering
• parenting
• trauma
• self care
• community care

Keywords

• adoption
• fostering
• psychotherapy
• trauma
• community care
• self care
• parenting

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Wildways therapy, AandF podcast, BlueSky, iTunes, Spotify

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